There’s something I keep seeing in leaders right now.
Not in one organization, sector, or stage of leadership.
Across the board.
Leaders who are capable, committed, and deeply experienced…starting to feel like what once worked no longer does.
And our first instinct?
To make it personal. I sure did. I made it mean that I needed to work harder, demonstrate my belonging a little more.
Maybe it sounds a little like:
“I’ve lost my edge”
“I need a new strategy”
“Maybe I’m just tired and need to take a vacation”
“I just need to be more confident, speak up more”
But what I’m seeing isn’t a personal failure.
It’s patterns.
I’m seeing high-capacity leaders carrying responsibility that was never meant to be held alone, by one person.
I’m seeing ambition that once felt aligned… start to overextend or distort as someone else’s goals.
I’m seeing leaders internalize what are actually structural problems…turning them into questions about their own capability.
I’m seeing power held with care… but without the space or support to recalibrate it, trying to do it all on their own.
And underneath all of it many feel alone in experiencing a quiet sense that something isn’t working anymore.
Even if, on the outside, everything still looks fine, successful.
Most people try to solve this quickly.
They look for:
a new role (in line with what they already have)
a clearer plan (advice from someone they trust)
a better strategy (staying in their conditioned mind to ‘solve’ it)
Something to quickly restore the feeling of certainty or control.
But this isn’t a problem that strategy solves.
What I’m seeing in these moments is something else entirely. Something we don’t often have language for.
These are leadership thresholds.
Moments where something in you is changing and asking to evolve…
Your identity. Your capacity. Your relationship to power, responsibility, and possibility.
And what makes these moments difficult is that what got you here won’t carry you forward in the same way.
So there’s tension, restlessness, disorientation, confusion.
An urge to figure it out and solve it.
But when we rush these moments, when we try to fix, solve, or move past them too quickly, we tend to repeat them.
Like the idea that the lesson will continue to be presented to us until we finally see and learn it.
Most leaders don’t fail at thresholds; they exit them too early.
The exiting feels like control, which is offers false comfort.
And the cost of that? It shows up later (believe me!).
It may show up in misaligned decisions, in overextension, in rumination.
Or building something that no longer fits the version of yourself you’re trying to be.
So if something in your leadership feels off… unclear… or like it no longer fits the way it used to.
It may not be a problem, rather an opportunity.
You may be in a threshold moment.
This space exists for that moment.
Not to rush you through it.
But to help you recognize it and move through it differently.
If this resonates, and you haven’t already, start by listening…
Welcome to Edge of Change Leadership
If you’ve found your way here, there’s a good chance something in your leadership or work is shifting.
The work we do is about turning a little disruption inward so we can shape what comes next.
- Meghan